I can still recite almost all of that from memory, after doing it at an audition in high school. Weird, weird song with no relevance to anything in the play, really.

That's pretty much a universal feature of any Gilbert & Sullivan production, but most especially The Mikado and Pinafore.

If the average moron hates it then BEP wouldn't be multi-platinum and still be played at every club, every night.

He's probably anathema to most people here because he's an asshole and a violent one to boot, but I really like Stanley Crouch's essay on Tarantino (and the book it's in, The Artificial Negro, is really quite astounding). At any rate, he argues for Tarantino as one of the only directors thinking carefully about race,…

Cue a long line of commentors complaining that this song is too easy to hate and that they need to pick something everyone likes…

Cue a long line of commentors complaining that this song is too easy to hate and that they need to pick something everyone likes…

Too late to this party and I can't be bothered to search for it now, but I'd have to add "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" from Pal Joey and some version of "Summertime" from Porgy & Bess. Both have absolutely stellar versions by Ella Fitzgerald, who you can pretty much never go wrong with, although I don't think…

Robertson, baby! The screws stay on the screwdriver!

Hmmm… I've never watched Glee and don't particularly want to, and I'm a passionate Bohemian Rhapsody hater. So… yeah, I don't think it's going to work out for me.

I remember a musician friend of mine who isn't much of a fan of musicals telling me about this awesome punk version of West Side Story, and how cool this version of "Officer Krupke" was, because they'd changed all the lyrics to be less sappy and musical-y. Apparently they said things like "my grandma pushes tea" and…

Which is a silly way to end the song - "Krup you!" is actually a pretty funny joke.

Yes, there's a page 2, but it doesn't include Gene Kelly either.

I can't believe you're the first person here to mention Gilbert & Sullivan, albeit in a film about them. Y'all fools are slacking. Plus, yes to My Fair Lady - again, why the hell are people not mentioning it? Although I would choose "On the Street Where You Live" as simply one of the great love songs, despite the fact…

Wonderful scene. And a really, really good play/film. You wouldn't normally think of Liza Minelli as being kinda sexy, but there you have it.

I think you're going to find a lot of soulless monsters here. I've never seen it, so can't comment, but I've read a LOT of people talking about how shitty they think it is. So, yeah.

You don't like real breasts, or just those particular ones in the trailer? I mean, I haven't seen the trailer and I can't be bothered to scroll all the way up and click on the link again - or what, I'd actually have to type something in to google to search for it? Shit, son, do I look like someone who likes work here?

Happy "birthday"?

NO APOSTROPHE IN ITS UNLESS IT'S AN ABBREVIATION! LIKE THE SECOND ONE IN MY FIRST SENTENCE! ONCE IS FORGIVEABLE, TWO TIMES, SHAME ON YOU?

I think we're in denial about how influential comedy nerds are. No one who isn't a stand-up aficionado has ever heard of Maron. Louis CK is famous enough that non-obsessives might know who he is, and his his own show, so hosting is logical enough for him. But Maron? I think he might be a little self-deprecating, but…

If you are going to China, seriously, visit Xingdao (how it's spelt on signs there). I went this summer and it was fucking awesome. You can go to the store and by a plastic bag of beer, and since the town was built by Germans it looks like Hamburg.
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